Happy Birthday to LISNews.com
Happy Birthday to LISNews.com
Happy Birthday dear LISNews.com
Happy Birthday to Us.
Reg Aubry was kind enough to send along a card.
It was one year ago today I launched LISNews.com
One year and almost 1,000 stories later, it seems like a good
time to take a step back and reflect.
Happy Birthday to LISNews.com
Happy Birthday to LISNews.com
Happy Birthday dear LISNews.com
Happy Birthday to Us.
Reg Aubry was kind enough to send along a card.
It was one year ago today I launched LISNews.com
One year and almost 1,000 stories later, it seems like a good
time to take a step back and reflect.
It\’s pronounced El-EYE-Ess News Dot Com.
I wish I could remember the very first story I posted on the
old site, but somehow that escaped my list. The first story on
this version was on The
Appleton Public Library. That was Wednesday January 26, @ 10:50AM.
Since then I have posted 967 more, my wrists are starting to hurt!
See the most
popular stories page for the full rundown and stats.
I can\’t even begin to estimate the amount of time I\’ve put in
over the past year. I would guess about 20 hours a week, but that
is probably low, maybe more like 25 is closer. We currently get
somewhere between 800 and 1,000 visitors a day. The mailing list
goes out to almost 800 people around the world. My goal has
always been 1,000 people a day, no good reason for that goal,
it\’s just a nice round number.
Luckily I\’ve had some help over the past year, Steve Galbraith,
Steven Cohen, Rory Litwin and a few others have come and gone.
Nabeal Ahmed has been an absolutely indispensable member of the
LISNews team with his SQL and PHP skills. When I started this
site I knew nothing about PHP and MySQL and I now do it for a
living (I\’m actually no longer a librarian), special thanks to
Nabeal.
I\’ve also had the opportunity to connect with some great folks
from around the world. Thomas Hennen, Jessamyn West, Sonia
Bebbington, Susan McClellan, Ben Ostrowsky, Nathan Hruby and the
entire PHPSlash
team, and many others that I\’m sure I am forgetting.
I\’ve also taken quite a fair amount of abuse for my poor spelling
and grammar skills. For those of you who were kind and
constructive in your criticism, I thank you, for the rest, you
should really have something better to do with your time than
pick on me for being stupid. I wish I had the time to double
check everything, but I just don\’t , the site gets updated if and
when I have time, so there will continue to be stupid mistakes.
Librarians can be so nasty it amazes me.
I\’m not sure what the next year holds for the site. One of these
days we\’ll switch code bases, and maybe move to our own server. I
often think of redesigning the colors, and layout, but never have
the time. I also continue to work on my own site when I have the
time, which is rare lately.
As always, I continue looking for help. The most frustrating
thing over the past year has been the lack of people willing to
participate with the site. I am surprised that no one else out
there wants to contribute. If you\’d like to join the ever
shrinking team of folks who post stories, please let me know, or
if you spot a story the world may be interested in, then send
that along. The best thing about LISNews is it allows more than
one person to reflect on the news and events that interest the
librarian and information science world, and I\’d love to allow
others to share stories and thoughts with everyone. I especially
welcome your own original writing, the most popular stories are
always the stories that are written by the LISNews readers.
Look, No Spelling Erros!
-Blake Carver
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